From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754200Ab3FQVMN (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:12:13 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:57813 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753739Ab3FQVMM (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:12:12 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,883,1363158000"; d="scan'208";a="351294645" Message-ID: <51BF7BAA.5030803@intel.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:12:10 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Theodore Ts'o" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Jan kara Subject: Re: ext4 extent status tree LRU locking References: <51B7B128.60909@intel.com> <20130614140940.GA20401@gmail.com> <20130614140215.GA1017@thunk.org> <20130614170028.GA21544@gmail.com> <20130614180054.GB1017@thunk.org> <20130617101033.GA17828@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130617101033.GA17828@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/2013 03:10 AM, Zheng Liu wrote: > Dave, that would be great if you could do your testing again to confirm > this patch is useful. I was able to apply this to Ted's https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/ "ext4/dev" tree with a bit of fuzz. What did you generate this against, btw? It does seem to be functioning OK for me, and passes the other tests that saw so much spinlock contention previously. You can add my Tested-by if you like.